Hi Y'all,
Long time lurker here - been following your posts and silently wishing you the best. I've restrained myself from posting (not knowing where it would end once it began), but as I wait in purgatory for the email that will send me to Heaven or Hell, I've broken down and logged on for mutual support.
A long story, but hopefully you'll find it interesting. I have a Full in with Nancy. I sent her a snail mail query about a year ago, back when they were only taking hard copy, and got an email response from her within a week requesting the Full. I was a bit surprised, as earlier posts in this forum described her as old-fashioned without any email. Apparently she's tech-savvy now. Perhaps we can thank Joanna. But a week later, I got the big R.
However, she liked the story and characters and was willing to accept a revision, and even sent me a few books with the kind of writing style she was looking for and a list of other authors to read. (I had tried to be smarter than the average bear, and wrote the novel in a rather unique viewpoint which apparently didn't work - same response from the other two agents who read the Full.) And so, I rolled my sleeves up and spent a few months just reading, then a few more re-writing, and sent her the revision about 4 weeks ago.
And here I sit, barely able to concentrate as I await her reply. I try to keep myself preoccupied, starting to work on my next project, but my attention span is soooo short, and I invariably find myself daydreaming about her response, which ranges from "It's spectacular" to "It's obvious you have no writing talent, and need to stop."
Sigh. 26 days, 5 hours and 41 minutes. But who's counting....